Editors of the European History Web Portal

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler

Gabriele Metzler is the spokesperson for the editorial board of the thematic portal European History. Since 2007, she has been a Professor of the History of Western Europe and Transatlantic Relations at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the transformation of statehood in Western Europe and the USA since 1945, the impacts of decolonisation on Western European societies post-1945, and the historical management of political violence by the state.

Prof. Dr. Hannah Ahlheim

Since 2018, Hannah Ahlheim has been a Professor of Contemporary History at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her research interests include the history of knowledge and the body, as well as the history of National Socialism and antisemitism, and the history of the "long" 20th century.

Prof. Dr. Martin Baumeister

Between 2003 and 2012, Martin Baumeister held the Chair of European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. He then served as Director of the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Rome from 2012 to 2024. Martin Baumeister’s research interests encompass Italian, Spanish, and German history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of popular culture and theatre, as well as the history of religion.

Prof. Dr. Ewald Frie

Since 2008, Ewald Frie has been a Professor of Modern History at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Since 2019, he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on German history of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, European noble history, the history of poverty and the welfare state, and the history of Australia. From 2001 to 2012, Ewald Frie oversaw the reviews section for Modern History: the Long 19th Century of H-Soz-Kult.

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Graf

Rüdiger Graf has directed Department II "Knowledge – Economy – Politics" at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam since 2014 and teaches Modern and Contemporary History at Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include the history of knowledge, oil and energy history, international history in the 20th century, the political culture of the Weimar Republic, as well as the theory and methodology of historiography.

Prof. Dr. Johannes Großmann

Johannes Großmann has been a Professor of Contemporary History and Modern History at LMU Munich since 2024. His research and teaching focus on German and (Western) European history from the 19th to the 21st century in their transnational and global interconnections. Another key area of his work is the history of political ideas and memory.

Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch

From 2004 to 2013, Madeleine Herren-Oesch was Professor of Modern History at the University of Heidelberg. Between 2013 and 2023, she headed the European Institute at the University of Basel as Professor of Modern General History. From a transdisciplinary perspective, her research interests focus on the European history of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the history of East Asia in its global-historical interconnections, the history of international organisations, transnational movements and methods of digital history.

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Hohls

Rüdiger Hohls led the Historical Computer Science department at Humboldt University Berlin until 2021 and has also taught as an Honorary Professor of Scientific Communication and Historical Computer Science at Leipzig University since 2013. From 1996 to 2021, he was the responsible editor of the professional communication platform H-Soz-Kult, and from 2008 to 2024, he served as the managing director of the Clio-online association, which includes the thematic portal European History among its offerings. His research interests lie in the history of digitality, economic history, and European integration.

Prof. Dr. Konrad Jarausch

Konrad Jarausch was Director of the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam from 1998 to 2006. Additionally, he was a Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1983 to 2023. Konrad Jarausch was a co-founder of H-Soz-Kult in 1996 and has been involved in the editorial team for many years. He researches and publishes on European and German (social) history, with a recent focus on the history of 20th-century Germany.

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kaelble

Hartmut Kaelble was a Professor of Economic and Social History at Freie Universität Berlin from 1971 to 1991. He then taught and researched at Humboldt University of Berlin as a Professor of Social History until 2008. He received numerous awards in France and has held visiting professorships, including at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His research focuses on European social, cultural, and social history.

Prof. Dr. Robert Kindler

Robert Kindler has been a Professor of the History of Eastern and East-Central Europe at Freie Universität Berlin since 2022. His research interests include the history of Central Asia, the history of Stalinism, and the history of imperial entanglements. From 2009 to 2021, Robert Kindler oversaw the reviews section for East European History at H-Soz-Kult.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft

Claudia Kraft was a Professor of European Contemporary History at the University of Siegen from 2011 to 2018. Since 2018, she has held the Chair of Contemporary, Cultural, Knowledge, and Gender History at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on comparative European contemporary history, the history of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and gender history.

Prof. Dr. Isabella Löhr

Isabella Löhr has been a Professor of International History of the 20th Century at Freie Universität Berlin since 2023 and directs the department "Globalisations in a Divided World" at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. Her research interests lie in German and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, migration and mobility history, and the history of international law.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell

Matthias Middell is a Professor of Cultural History and Director of the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig. He is also the spokesperson for the SFB 1199 and the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, as well as serving as Vice-Rector for Campus Development: Cooperation and Internationalisation since 2022. His research profile spans internationally comparative historiography, particularly concerning world historiography in the 20th century, and includes global history since the 18th century and processes of re-spatialisation of the world. From 2002 to 2021, Matthias Middell coordinated the Leipzig reviews editorial team, focusing on global history and transnational history for H-Soz-Kult.

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Middendorf

Stefanie Middendorf has been a Professor of Contemporary History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2021, where she researches and teaches on topics including the history of governance, the history of democracy and dictatorship, and the cultural history of European modernity.

Prof. Dr. Maren Möhring

Maren Möhring has been a Professor of Comparative Cultural and Social History of Modern Europe at the University of Leipzig since 2014. Her research interests include migration and gender history, the history of mass culture, and the roles of nutrition and health in modern societies. Additionally, Maren Möhring has been the deputy chair of the Clio-online association since 2020, which includes the thematic portal European History among its offerings.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Nützenadel

Alexander Nützenadel has been a Professor of Economic and Social History at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2009. His research focuses on modern economic and social history, European fascism from a comparative perspective, and he examines historical economic knowledge and experts, banks, debt, and financial regulation in the 20th century, as well as historical experiences and economic expectations.

Prof. Dr. Louis Pahlow

Since 2012, Louis Pahlow has held the Chair of Modern and Recent Legal History, Civil Law, and Industrial Property Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for Business History e.V. and other academic institutions. His research concerns the history of commercial and economic law, industrial property protection, economic behaviour in legal contexts, and legal philosophy.

Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel

Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and founding director of Projekthaus Europa. He previously held chairs at the University of Maastricht and the European University Institute in Florence. In research and teaching, he has engaged with a wide range of topics in European and US history, with a particular emphasis on comparative, transnational, and global approaches.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg

Susanne Schattenberg has been a Professor of Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen since 2008, as well as the Director of the Research Centre for Eastern Europe. She has researched the Russian Empire in the 19th century, as well as on the history of the Soviet Union and Stalinism, and has focused primarily on the Soviet Union after 1953. Her research interests encompass many aspects of Russian and Soviet history from the 19th and 20th centuries. From 2003 to 2009, Susanne Schattenberg oversaw the reviews section for East European History at H-Soz-Kult.

Prof. Dr. Iris Schröder

Iris Schröder has been a Professor of Global History at the University of Erfurt since 2013 and is the Director of the Research College for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection in Gotha. Her research interests include the history of historical sciences, the cultural history of geography, globalisations of knowledge, urban history and the history of urbanisation, gender history, international history, and the European and global history of historiography, as well as visual history and the history of the internet.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Schunka

Alexander Schunka has been a Professor of Early Modern History from a European Perspective at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of Freie Universität Berlin since 2015. His research interests focus on the cultural history of Europe in the Early Modern period, particularly regarding the history of cultural transfers and interactions (Anglo-American space, Central Europe, Ottoman Empire), historical migration and mobility research, resource history, and the history of religion in the Early Modern period.

Prof. Dr. Hannes Siegrist

Hannes Siegrist researched and taught as a Professor of Cultural History/European Modernity at the University of Leipzig from 1997 to 2013. Since 2007, he has also been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Between 2005 and 2021, Hannes Siegrist served as the spokesperson for the thematic portal European History. His areas of expertise include social and cultural history of Europe (18th-20th centuries), occupational history, and the history of the professionalisation, institutionalisation, and legal regulation of art and culture (including intellectual property), as well as the history of consumption and popular and mass culture, and cultural policy.

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Süß

Dietmar Süß has been a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Augsburg since 2013 and is a member of the Jakob Fugger Centre – Research College for Transnational Studies. His research interests include the history of violence, the history of work and social movements, and the contemporary history of religion.

Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak

Dirk van Laak has been a Professor of the History of the 19th to 21st Centuries at the University of Leipzig since 2016. His research focuses on German, European, and globalisation history, intellectual history, the history of technology, infrastructure, and planning, the history of colonialism and imperialism, the history of literature and historiography, as well as the history of property rights and inheritance. From 2005 to 2015, Dirk van Laak oversaw the reviews section for Modern History: the First Half of the 20th Century at H-Soz-Kult.

Prof. Dr. Jakob Vogel

Jakob Vogel has been a Professor at the Centre d’histoire at Sciences Po in Paris since 2011. Additionally, he served as Director of the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin from September 2018 to August 2023 and has been teaching as an Honorary Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin since 2020. His research interests lie in the history of Europe (18th-20th centuries), colonial history, the history of science and knowledge, and the history of nations and nationalism.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Weber

Claudia Weber has been a Professor of European Contemporary History at Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) since 2014. Her research addresses historical processes of Europeanisation and the history of European concepts, as well as the ambivalences of Europeanisation. Other focal points include the history of war, violence, and dictatorship in the 20th century, the cultural history of the Cold War, and the history of imperial rule and comparative imperial history.

Prof. Dr. Heike Wieters

Heike Wieters has been a Junior Professor of Historical European Studies at the Institute of History at Humboldt University of Berlin since 2019. Her current research focuses on the contemporary history of European integration, the history of food, global welfare state research, and the transnational relationship and interaction history of state and non-state actors in economics and society. Since 2016, Heike Wieters has overseen the reviews section for contemporary history, with a focus on European integration at H-Soz-Kult.

Prof. Dr. Michael Wildt

Michael Wildt was a Professor of German History in the 20th Century, with a focus on the history of National Socialism, at Humboldt University of Berlin from 2009 to 2022. Between 2014 and 2023, he was also chairman of the supporting organisation Clio-online e.V., whose services include the thematic portal European History. He is also co-editor of the journals WerkstattGeschichte and Historische Anthropolgie. His research interests lie in the field of 20th century German history and comparative research into National Socialism and its apparatus of oppression and persecution.

Group of Managing Editors

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Former Editors of the European History Web Portal

Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst

Stefan Troebst was Professor of Cultural History of Eastern Europe at the University of Leipzig and Head of the Master's Programme European Studies at the Global and European Studies Institute until 2021. From 1999 to 2021 he was also deputy director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO). At the web portal European History, he was in charge of the section Memory Cultures in Europe.